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#*,8 t | t3 ® w #« te Dinner at the Lodge that night was not a very lively a;:ir. Trent had great matters in his brain, and was not in the least dlisposed to make conâ€" versation for the sake of his unbidâ€" den guests. Da Souza‘s few remarks he treated with silent contempt, and Mrs. Da Souza he answered only in monosyllables. _ Julie, nervous and depressed, stole away before dessert, and Mrs. Da Souza soon followed her,| very massive, and lrowning‘with an | air of offended dignity. Souza, | who opened the door for them, returnâ€" | ed to his seat, moodily flicking the, crumbs from his trousers with his servietie. | "Harg it all, Trent," he remarked in im aggrieved tone, "you might be . a "Well!" "He thought it his duty to let me know that there had been rumors as to how your father met his death. Trent, it seems, had the reputation of being a reckless and daring man, and according to some agreement which they had, he profited enormously by your father‘s death. There seems to have been no really definite ground for the rumor except that the body was not found where Trent said that he had died. Apart from that, life is held cheap out there, and although your father was in delicate health, his death under such conditions could not fail to be suspicious. I hope I haven‘t s«id too much. ‘I‘ve tried to pu*t .it ‘o you exactly a« it was put to me . | ‘Thank you," Ernestine said, "I think 1 understand." ' Ernestine read the letter carefully through, and instead of handing it back to Davenant, put it into her pocket when she rose up. "Cecil," she said, "I want you to leave me at once! You may come back toâ€"morrow at the same time. 1 am going . to think this out quietly." He took up his hat. "There is one thing more, Ernestine," he said slowâ€" ly. "Enclosed in the letter from the missionary at Attra was another and a shorter note, which in accordance with his request, I burnt as soon as I read it. I believe the man was honâ€" ost when he toid me that for hours he had hesitated whether to send me those few lines or not. Eventually he decided to do :o, but he appealed to my honor to destroy the note as soon as I had read it." WiT income. It was a desperate enterâ€" prise perhaps, but it suited him, and he went on to tell me this, Ernestine. If he succeeded and he became wealthy, he was returning to Engâ€" land just for a sight of you. He was 30 changed, he said, that no one in the world would recognize him. Poor fellow! If wase Fho Lrak es t Loj _ 1es.. It was a terrible risk they were running," he said, "for the people were savage and the climate deadly. He wrote cheerfully for him, th:ugh. He had a partner, he said, inches the ( the minc aving beer i Nak 222. t b : WeR j ity toâ€"day as don‘t think w "f ,Lfank with you, I oul L‘w'f:?,“ ';'::::fl;:ngrzed. "ard °T don‘t think he did. sarfloubnd as I expected that you have ‘Poor dad, , she murmured, "of been making efforts to dispose of your course he didn‘t! I know T‘d have share in the Bekwando Syndicate." fom to the devil as fast as I could if | ® "I can assure youâ€"â€"â€"" ‘d been treated like it!" "Oh, rot!" Trent interrupted. "I "Well, he drifted about from place know what I‘m talking about. 1 won‘t to place and at last he got to the h ou sell out. Do you hear. If Gold Coast. Here I half lost sight of avety it on Tll queer t{e market for him, and his few letters were more | yYou ?an risk. I won‘t marry your bitter and del;p-irinti-than ever. The (’;0" ?)ter 3; won‘t be blackmailed, and last 1 had told me that he was Fles|I won‘t be buitted, "We‘re in This toâ€" off on an expedition into the mtenorj ‘:’h sink or swim. If you pull mcl with _ another Englishman. _ They| en 3 ou‘ve got to come too. I‘ll were to visit a native king and try | gw?t {hat if Monty were to present to obtain from him â€" certain conces-{:,m If in London â€" toâ€"moerrow and[ sions, including the right to work a‘d'msed his full pound of flesh we| wonderful gol(fâ€"mine somewhere near’_:m‘}g be ruined, but he isn‘t going | the village of Bekwando." ’:0 o(;xo it. By yom" own showing there§ "Why, the great Bekwapdo Land;iq no immediate risk, and you‘ve got | Company‘" she cried. ‘"It is the one | to Teavre the thing in my hands to dof Scarlett Trent has just formed ul“(f’hat I think best. If you play any syndicate to work." ;hanky-panky tricksâ€"look here, Dfl‘ Davenant nodded. P a [ Souza, PH kill you, sure! Do you! "Yes. It was a terrible risk they hear" "I tould do it, and no one would‘ were running," he said, "for the b azh.e wiser so far as I was concernâ€" | heople were savage and the olimate | 3 You take notice of what I say, leadly. He wrote cheerfully for him, | B‘ Souzs. You‘ve made a fonune,{ hough. He had a partner, he said, a] be satisfied. That‘s all!" 17 who was strong and determined,. and | and be . "Well, I am glad to tell you this at any rate," he said. "I always liked our father, and I saw him off when Ke left England, and have written to him often since. I believe I was his only correspondent in this country, exâ€" cept his solicitors. He had a very adventurous, and, I am afraid, not a very harpy time. He never wrote cheerfully, and he mortgaged the greater part of his income. 1 don‘t blame him for anything he did. A man needs some responsibility, or some one dependent upon him to keepl straight. To be frank with you, J don‘t think he did." "Poor dad," she murmured, "of course he didn‘t! I know Td have fune to the devil as fast as I could if ‘d beenmn treated like it!" "Well, he drifted about from place to place and at last he got to the | Gold Coast. Here I half lost sicht af | D (Or m him ‘And y Ar _‘ orinrenig. car Sir,â€"In reply to your letter nquiry respeciing the whereâ€" s of a Mr. Richard Grey, the r was placed in my hands by gent of Messrs. Castle, and T personally visited Buckomari, illage at which he was last of. It seems that in February, he started on an expedition to indo in the interior with an hman by the name of Trent, a view to buying land from â€"a king, or obtaining the concesâ€". o work the valuable gold-mines, t country. The expedition seems e been successful, but Trent reâ€"| | alone and reported that his‘ CHAPTER XVIH Mi olutely. _ Trent‘s own story s the matter. The prospectus mine quotes the concession as been granted to him by the f Bekwando in the same month r father wrote to me." | what news," she asked, "have d since?" y this letterâ€"I will read it to ‘om one of the missionaries of sle Society. I heard nothing long, that I made enquiries, s is the result." | itine took it and read it out II lu CHAPTER XVIIL.â€"(Cont‘d) you are sure," Ernestine said ‘that Scarlett Trent was his 1 would recognize him It was the last line 1 THE GOoLDEN KEy Ur ‘"The Adventures of Ledgard." By the Author of "What Hoe Cost Her." Chas Or ‘"The etter carefully of handing it t it into her e up. "Ceecil," o leave me at ack toâ€"morrow im going to having to send ty news in reâ€" ie ‘donation to de every enâ€" ‘ any personal Grey, I find, »wether by the acked by bushâ€" ind had died in 1 read it out ncerely, Addison cause you, seeck and it may which nd, | selfâ€"abandonment he groped about he searching for its meaning. He was a man who liked to understand thorâ€" ch oughly everything he saw and felt, u, and this new atmosphere in which nd | he found himself was a curious source ay | of excitement to him. Only he knew * | that the central figure of it all was | this girl, that he had come out here | to think about her, and that henceâ€" | forth she had become to him the ly | standard of those things which were it worth having in life, Everything er| about her had been a revelation to | ," him. The women whom he had come at | across in his battle upwards, barmaids | w | and their fellows, fifthâ€"rate actresses, to | occasionally the suburban wife of a | | prosperous City man, had impressed | e | him only with a sort of coarse conâ€" | y« tempt. It was marvellous how thorâ€" e oughly and clearly he had recognized ; d | Ernestine at once as a type of that / e other world of womenkind, of which | I|he admittedly knew nothing. Yet it! iâ€" was so short a time since she had ‘s | wandered into his life, so short a time | e that he was even a little uneasy at |. y the wonderful strength of this new | d passion, a thing which had leaped up | j s | like a forest tree in a world of magic, |â€" | a live, fullyâ€"grown thing, mighty and | \immovable in a single night. He| e | found himself thinking of all the other |s s things in life from a changed standâ€". â€" . point! ° His sense of proportions was ;t f altered, his financial triumphs were | 1 no longer omnipotent. He was in-l( 1 clined even to brush them aside, to ;] ; consider them more as an incident in * ) his career. He associated her now | I I with all those plans concerning the a _ fubure which he had been dimly forâ€"| j : mulating since the climax of his sucâ€"‘ w ; | cesses had come. She was of the o world which he sought to enterâ€"-at‘" once the stimulus and the object of | _ his desires. He forgot all about Da | Souza and his* threats, about the _ brokenâ€"down, halfâ€"witted old man‘ was gazing with w‘stfu‘ eyes across‘u; the ocean which kept him there, an | on exileâ€"he remembered nothing savel € the wonderful, new thing which he| had come into his life. A month ago | * he would have scoffed at the idea of | there being anything worth considerâ€"| m ing outside the courts and alleys of ye the moneyâ€"changers‘ market. â€" Toâ€" be night he knew of other things. Toâ€" | nc night he knew that all he had done so en far was as nothingâ€"that as yet his fe foot was planted only on the threshâ€" | â€" old of life, and in the path along | !" which he must hew his “'f lay many | M fresh worlds to conquer. Toâ€"night he | 2i told himself that he was equal to them | th: all. There was something out here in op the dim moonlim:) something . sugâ€" | w} gested by the s ws, the roseâ€"perâ€" pr fumed air, the delicate and languid the stillness, which crept into his veins and course through his blood like | ** magic Poor had Yet every now stranger in the world of feminine thjr_rg’g. With a pleasant sense of The change in him became physical | as well as mental. The hard face of] the man softened what there was of | coarseness in its rugged outline beâ€"| came altogether toned down. He! pushed open the gate with fingers: which were almost reverent; he came | at last to a halt in the exact spot where ) he had seen her first. Perhaps it was at that moment he realized most comâ€" | pletely and clearly the curious thing which had come to himâ€"to him of all men, hard-hea_rted. material, an utter | | _ Trent strolled through the open | window into the garden, and breathed a deep sigh of relief. He was a free man again now. He had created new dangersâ€"a new enemy to faceâ€"but what did he care? All his life had been spent in facing dangers and conâ€" | quering enemies. What he had done , before he could do again! As he lit { a pipe and walked to and fro, he felt that this new state of things lent a certain savor to lifeâ€"took from it a. certain sensation of finality not alâ€". together agreeable, which his recent great achievements in the financial: world semed to have inspired. After| all, what could Da Souza do? His | prosperity was altogether bound up | in the success of the Bekwando.Synâ€" dicateâ€"he was never the man to kill the goose which was laying such a / magnificent stock of golder eggs.’ The affair, so far as he was concernâ€" ed, troubled him scarcely at all on‘ cool reflection. As he drew near the | little plantation he ever forgot all | about it. Something else was filling. his thoughts! | "No, I‘m shot if I will!" Trent anâ€" swered. "And look here, Da Souza, I‘m leaving here for town toâ€"morrow â€"taken a furnished flat in Dover, Streetâ€"you can stay here if you want | but there‘ll only be a caretaker in the | place. That‘s all I‘ve got to say., Make yourself at home with the port | and cigars. Last night, you know! You‘ll excuse me! I want a breath ofl fresh air." | "You won‘t marry Julie, then?" Da Souza said gloomily. _ _ Da Souza obeyed, but without heartiness. He stretched himself out in his chair and looked down thoughtâ€" fully at the large expanse of shirtâ€" front in the centre of which flashed an enormous diamond. "One isn‘t usually amiable to guests who stay when they‘re not asked," Trent answered gruffly. "However, if I hadn‘t much to say to your wife and daughter, I have a word or two :;o say to you, so fill up your glass and isten." bit more amiable! Nicely lively dinâ€" ner for the women I must say." and then the san e to â€"say.| A.â€"â€" I 11 WO« A Powerful Geyser. J ed â€" with The Waimangu (Geyser near Rotorâ€" | shrink. | ua, in New Zealand, the largest geyser,| The c on the island, which in its period of | should I | eruption threw huge columns of waâ€" hanger. , ter, black mud, rocks, and stones to a‘ Spoons |height of fifteen hundred feet and ‘ rubbed v Imore, but which for the past eleven] Add a years has remained quiet, has again | stewed a become active. It recently blew out a flavor. ' new crater, eighty yards long by sev-! A stri entyâ€"five yards wide, and about twenty | quilts or f feet drep. In that first explosion, durâ€" | them so. ing which it hurled mud and stones" Disinfe more than a thousand feet into the | should be air, it formed twenty mud “boilers”fonce a w that threw mud thirty feet high, and .Potato« opened seven broad steam holes, from l will be l which steam escaped under great before be pressure. Some of the sand and mud Rose c that it sent up was, it is said, carried | inch from as far as Lake Rotomahana, three and wheat ins a half miles away. At last accounts,| â€" Before jets of steam were issuing from the | knifeboar many fissures in the crater wall. knivas wil | to Sea, concluded amongst themselves | that while their Husbands were now ‘a shoare, busied in the Conquest of | that Countrey, they would fire the | ships, and by that means to quit themselves of the fear of any further travailers, which they put in effect. But when they considered the highl displeasure of their husbands likely to come upon them with Death, they reâ€"| solved upon this way of pacification ; | which was, that at the returne of | them, every wife should use this kind[ of welcome, by kissing him on the Lippes, which before that time was; not used and knowne; which when the | men perceived, wondering and amazed | at this novelty of embraces, became | indulgent to them, and pacified ; | whereupon, since that, it never went ; out of use, but grew rather more and more in request. 4 | Q.â€"How is it that this act is so much esteemed and used of Lovers? A.â€"This was first invented by the Trojan Wives, who being tyred with the long and tedious travailes by Sea, and being now arrived in the pleaâ€" sant Country of Italy, and loath that their Husbands should any more put to Sea, concluded amon@st themeelvac set forth under the headif;é ‘-‘E)‘fni;is‘; ing, a token of Love":â€" | _Q.â€"Why did nature make rather | the braine cold than hot | _ _A.â€"For this main reason only: to temper and moderate the heate of the heart, to the end it might serve in stead of a Fan or cooler. Marriage is summed up pithily as follows:â€" Q.â€"What is marriage ? A.â€"A Paradise on earth if herl laws be observed, but a hell in the house if her statutes be broken. ’ But perhaps the finest thing in the book relates to the "invention" of kissing, a matter about which many‘ sweethearts have no doubt had their arguments. Here are the facts a«| But neither men nor womer become hot headed. Note this: A.â€"By reason of the weakness of their mnature; for being not able by force to support and maintaine themâ€" selves, they betake themselves to craft, covetousness and discord, which Caesar said was the Mother of Asâ€" surance. Q.â€"Why are women more covetous, more _ crafty, and more revengeful than men ? Women come in for their full share of notice, but alas! our author docs not appear to have held them in very high esteem. For instance:â€" A.â€"Because it causeth them oftenâ€" times to decline from the right way of vertue. A.â€"Chickens and â€" Pullets have smaller sinews and veines, and thereâ€" fore life cannot so soone leave them. Quite an original explanation of the desire to be rich is found in this:â€" Q.â€"Why doe men seek to avoyde poverty ? A.â€"To learn to know himselfe. Q.â€"What dost cast from it a greater heate than fire? A.â€"Beauty, which setteth not onely on fire those that touch it, but also those that a farre off doe behold it. Q.â€"Why doe Pullets (their throats being cut) survive after it longer than men ? ‘ Q.â€"How is it that the Hare sleeps | with her eyes open? ‘ A.â€"Because her eyelids are not | large enough to cover her eyes. The | like also is it, as many doe report | with many other animals, as the Lyon \himself. Q.â€"What is the hardest thing be learned ? Classification of subjects did not trouble the author, to judge from these three questions and answers, which follow one another:â€" | Strange Questions and Stranger Answers. i Curious, indeed, were some of the | beliefs of our. forefathers, to judge | from the little volume, entitled "Curiâ€" | osities of Nature," published in 1637. | Like most books of the olden days | this one is dedicated to a peerâ€"in this case to "The Right Honorable William Lord Craven, Baron of Hamâ€" fsted, &c.," and the author, after re-‘ questing ."gracious protection," tells The somewhat astounding informaâ€" tion is conveyed by means of quesâ€" tions and answers. T mitads. »ok Ashap S ki indsiitss VERLS his patron that his "handful of Curiâ€" osities" is "devoted unto you by the Heart and Hand of a Student, Traâ€" vailer and Souldier." Iwhich were filling his brain. So far ’he had played the game of life as a hard man, perhaps, and a selfisi: one, | but always honestly. Now, for the |\first time, he had stepped aside from \the beaten track. He told himself |that he was not bound to believe Da ’ Souza‘s story, that he had left Monty | with the honest conviction that he was past all human help. Yet he knew that such consolation was the merest sophistry. Through the twilight, as he passed to and fro, he fancied more than once that the wan face of an old man, with wistful sorrowing eyes was floating somewhere before himâ€"and he stopped to listen ~with bated breath to the wind rustling in the elmâ€" trees, fancying he could hear that same passionate cry ringing still in his earsâ€"the cry of an old man partâ€" ed from his kin and waiting for death in a lonely land. (To be continued.) thought came; it lay like a small but threatenini black shadow across all those brilliant hopes and dreams CURIOSITIES OF NATURE. the facts, as women can Before cleaning knives warm the knifeboard before the fire and the knives will polish more easily. re not _ The report : Lyon Rose cuttings should be slit one inch from the bottom, and a grain of wheat inserted. .Potatoes boiled with the skins on will be less soggy than when peeled betore boiling. Disinfecting powders or liquids should be used freely in a bathroom once a week. w o o y m T mmely Add a few chopped dates to the stewed apples and it will improve the flavor. A strip sewed across the tops of Spoons stained with egg should be rubbed wish salt before being washed. The closet of the guest chamber should have in it a skirt and coat hanger. Sponges which a'rvev’;limy should steeped in vinegar and water for day. Soap shredded among stored blanâ€" kef_s drives away moths. | _ Apple Roll.â€"Take two cups of flour, "one-half tablespoonful of salt, four |level teaspoonfuls of salt, four level | teaspoonfuls of butter, twoâ€"thirds of | a cup of milk, one cup of chopped apâ€" lple, three tablespoonfuls of sugar, | oneâ€"hadf tablespoonful of cinnamon. }Sift flour, salt and baking powder toâ€" | gether and thoroughly mix in butter | with tips of fingers. Add the milk, ‘stirring it in with a knife. Roli the dough out a quarter of an inch thick ’and spread with chopped apple, sugar and cinnamon. Roll like jelly roll, cut in threeâ€"quarter inch slices and | place in buttered pan, flat side down., Bake 15 minutes in a hot oven and | serve hot with lemon sauce. The: sauce is easily made by boiling threeâ€"| quarters of a cup of sugar and oneâ€"‘ half cup of water five minutes, addâ€" | ing to it two teaspoonfuls of butter ; and one teaspoonful of ~lemon juice | just a dash of nutmeg. | Roman Cream.â€"Six eggs, one quart milk, eight tablespoonfuls sugar, oneâ€" half box gelatine, one wineglass wine, vanilla to taste. Dissolve the gelaâ€" tine in the milk. Beat yolks of eggs and sugar thoroughly, and add this to the milk, and put on to boil in double boiler. As soon as it boils remove from the fire to cool, and heat the whites of eggs and add them to the wine and flavoring, and set on ice in a mold to harden and turn out of the mold to serve. * to If wooden pails and tubs are with gl&cerine they' :vâ€"illr not Grapes may be kept for months. Seâ€" lect perfect bunches and see that the fruit is solid on the bunch. Remove all little spiders and their webs, but do not wash the fruit. Wrap each bunch carefully in dark blue tissue paper, twisting the ends tightly to exâ€" clude the air, then pack the grapes _ Sauce for Puddings.â€"Cream â€" toâ€" gether a cupful of sifted sugar and half a cupful of butter; add a teaâ€" spoonful of ground cinnamon and an egg well beaten. Boil a teacupful of milk and turn it, boiling hot, over the mixture slowly, stirring all the time; this will cook the egg smoothly. It may be served hot or cold. P pe comforters saves washing ho Household Hints. s RWOGIALL y" 71 Cican, whole young leaves. pl;,i?:ked right, blended right and packed right. It brings the fragrance of an Eastern garden to your table. "SALADA® Fresh and Refreshing About the Dainty Dishes. slimy should be paintâ€" TORONTO _ Typhus fever, which recently threaâ€" | tened destruction to Serbia‘s populaâ€"| tion, is a diseage which is now hardly known in the United States, though there was a time when it figured proâ€" / minently all over America, causing! many deaths. American physicians : have the distinction of rescuing Serâ€" bia from obliteration by this scourge. The first step was to find out exactâ€"‘ ly how‘ the infection was carried. We know that the disease microbes are killed in all healthy persons by the leucocytes, or white corpuscles, in the blood, thus disclosing a chemiâ€" cal as well as a bacteriological method of protection. The process of increasâ€" ‘ ing leucocytes in the blood is called | leucocytosis, and the chemical action | above described as the creation of | antiâ€"bodies. P { But recently science has discovered another and highly effective method !of disease prevention, called immuniâ€" zation. This method was suggested by the fact that when a person had suffered from a germ disease, he or she was less liable to contract it again than was a person who had never suffered from it to cuntract it in the first place. The microbe of the disease seems to have left in the body a condition of the _ blood which inâ€" creased the power of resistance to n‘ second infection. | All diseases run a definite course, and it seems impossible to prevent this, when the disease is once seated. Measures for the prevention of disâ€" ease are generally confined to two lines,â€"sanitation and hygiene, and destroying disease germs or producing conditions in which they cannot long survive,â€"thus preventing their furâ€" ther development. The. diseases of assault are much easier to cope with, as the microscope tells us that they are all due to the presence of extremely minute living organisms, known variously as miâ€" crobes, germs, bacteria, etc. When the cause of a disease is asâ€" certained, over half the work of cure is accomplished, souperGatasane dsc Diseases, says Dr. Edson, are diâ€" vided into two great classes, those which are caused by a failure of some part of the complicated human organâ€" ism to perform its functions, and "those which are due to an attack on this mechanism from without. Diaâ€" betes, for example, is failure of a within function, while typhoid fever is a disease of assault from without. The former is much more difficult to treat than the latter, because their cause lies deeper within the mysteriâ€" ous zone, where life‘s forces play most energetically. 1 , pend entirely upon a laborious assem â€" | bling of carefully observed facts, and | their critical examination. He must | be over cautious, almost skeptical, in ihis attitude towards every soâ€"called "new cure." The trained investigator can only emerge from doubt into certainty, by critical observation and analysis. Dr. David Orr Edson, of New York, & noted man in the medical line, with an international reputation, explains the modus operandi that is the last word of science on the subject before us. Fight _ on i Uimint n neaudatel)s liesi W se ac k. bed with a lump of viously warmed in fr Afterwards an occasi of furniture polish wil ners smooth. When thi fails it is due to some struction. _ When cooking a piece of bacon | housewives should try the plan of fbaking it instead of boiling it in the ‘usual way. If baked it eats richer. Drawers that open and shut with difficulty are often a severe tax on both time and temper, and the deâ€" fect may sometimes be very easily remedied with beeswax. The runners, the narrow strips of wood attached to the frame work, should be well rubâ€" bed with a lump of beeswax, preâ€" viously warmed in front of the fire. Afterwards an occasional application of furniture polish will keep the runâ€" ners smooth. When this simple remedy mm i +2 ~ The tough part of thâ€"e sk|; removed before the bacon i the oven, Handkerchiefs may be bleached by soaking over night in water in which a little cream of tartar has been disâ€" solved. Household Typhus, Diabetes and Cancer. HEALTH ed it eats richer. he skin should be bacon is put into fault ‘ in conâ€" y ‘ They Travel Free on Passenger Boag y | In China. i In China begging is in the nature . of an art, and the various sorts of ;isupplicants have been classified, until [ now it is known that there are at ;fleast thirty classes of travelling menâ€" | dicants. ; | _ The passerger boats know them and ' | do not attempt to rollect passage moâ€" f! ney, for they sleep on the open deck, |and, curiously enough, pay for what-‘1 | ever rice they require. This being the | |case, rather than have any trouble | | with them and gain their enm‘ty, the | |boatmen allow them free passage. ‘ | _ When they reach the city they put| up at the beggar hotel near the Big,' | Pagoda and let the beggar headman | know of their arrival. Soon the reguâ€" | !]ar allowance is forthcoming and the | | man spends a few days in pursuit of | | pleasure and then moves on to another | | place to repeat the same proccedine 1 Observing Studentâ€"It called gossip. When a young man is sure he can‘t live without ~ certain girl he ought to marry i. and discover his mis. take. Teacher in Civicsâ€"When we have everything in common and your busiâ€" ness is everybody‘s business, what is it called? | _ The jabali is only first cousin, howâ€" | ever, to the domestic pig. Swine are ‘ divided into two main branches; in one |line is the farmer‘s pig, descended [ from the wild hog of Europe, and in : the other is the jabali, which is really \a peccary. But the jabali is quite "piggy" enough, with his small, flexâ€" ible snout, long, mottled bristles and long, sharp tusks. a hotel in one of the boraerâ€" Lo;n;s even keeps one of the wild hogs as a playmate for his baby son. \In Mexico Will Fight Of Coyotes or | Other Wild Animals. ! In some parts of Mexico the wild hogs, which the natives call jabalisâ€" hahâ€"bahâ€"leeâ€"savage beasts in their natural statc, are used as watchdogs. If they are caught young and brought up with goats they will go out into the hills with the herd and fight off coyâ€"| otes or other wild animals; if they are raised with chickens they will protect them, and round a ranchâ€"house at night they are as useful as any dog. Although fierce by nature, they can be tamed until they follow their masâ€" ter round like a dog. The landlord of ‘| The clothes and shoes were made E larger for winter than for summer ‘|\ wear, to allow for layers of air. The | buttonholes and other openings were | protected with special care, after | small frozen areas had been found on the chests of some of the soldiers corâ€" |responding to the buttonholes. The fingers and feet were rubbed with tallow or other unsalted fat, ,nnd mittens were worn over gloves. ,The mittens were sometimes packed ‘with straw or feathers, and the shoes with horse bedding. Fur keeps | out the wind better than woollens and 'a fur abdominal band proved a great | | help in extremely cold weather. Muffs of fur or felt and wristiets of wool [ or fur were found very useful. Whenâ€" |ever the hands were found frozen, it was learned that the men had been wearing knitted gloves. The foot cloth worn instead of socks could be dried in emergencies by wearing it next the body. Wrapâ€" ping the toes in paper, or the whole foot in a pig bladder was also found: useful at times. In the Japanese army every man had an extra pair of boots, mittens, |and foot cloths, to change at night. \ They were made to eat often, and to | keep awake those inclined to drop |to sleep on the march or in changing lrgun'da. They were kept from doing exercise that would make them sweat, apd they were not allowed to lie down on snow. When straw was not availâ€" able, they had to shovel th& snow away so as to lie on the groffnd. _ THE BEGGARS‘ PARADISE WILD HOGS AS WATCHDOGS. How Japanese Kept Soldiers Warm in Winter Campaign. Many of the ingenious methods used by the Japanese to keep from freezing to death during their winter campaign in Manchuria have been adopted by Russia, Germany and Austria to protect their soldiers. . tion of all bedding and clothing, and keeping the body free from lice. The work proved successful. Careful observation finally fixed upon the small parasite known as the louse, which infested the hair, clothing and bedding of the Serbians. It was then a simple task of checking the disease by the sanitary measures of s_eeriliu:1 OUTWITTED JACK FROST. He Knew. on to another proceeding., is usually have Three hundred years ago glass windows, which were only to be found in the houses of the wealthy, were considered so precious that when peoâ€" ple left their houses for a time they used to take the windows out and puc them carefully away. | France had ano*h"5r valign arch, King Henry IV., who as |of Navarre learned war. Ac | to historians, this monarch ca [his first battle a coward. By |force of will he remained on t} |and in after campaigns his | was the most feared by his c He was ever in the thickest « fight; "his plume," . to quot ichronicler of the past, "being w standard of the French army * didn‘t?" .‘The Wifeâ€"*"Yes my wedding day," didn‘t ?" The Husband (during ‘â€"‘You are always mak Was there ever a tin And we still thrill at the stories of the gallantry of Henry V., who at the Battle of Agincourt won his greatest fame. Once he was beset by three knights together, and, as his immediâ€" ate bodyguard was so hard pressed that they could give him no aid, the king slew one knight with a straight sword thrust, caught his second foe with the back swing and threw him to the ground, and, as the third knight unhorsed him, plunged his lsword into his last enemy‘s horse and 'brought the knight to earth. There they fought it out on foot, with Henry V. as final victor. ' France‘s Royal Herocs. His deeds recall those o2 John â€" of France, who fought the Englis® nder the Black Prince at the Battie of Poictiers, where, although he was taken prisoner with Philip, afterâ€" wards created Duke of Burgundy, and known as "Philip the Bold," he fought in a manner which won the admiration of his foes. | Toâ€"day kings are not allowed to fight, but there is no doubt that, | were it possible, they would willingâ€" |ly shoulder a rifie, handle a machine | gun, or lead a cavalry charge, and ‘I seck to emulate the deeds of the fighting monarchs of the past who have built up empires. Great Deeds. Our history books teem _ with stories of valiant deeds done by Engâ€" land‘s fighting kings, the boldest of whom, perhaps, was Richard L., who loved war for itself alone and was but a poor peace monarch. One of the most stirring episodes of his career was the story of how, when fighting the Saladin with the Crusadâ€" ers, word was brought to him that a troop of Knights Templars had been surrounded. Without waiting for the whole of his armor to be buckled on, he went to their rescue. "I must go as I am," he said, when warned of the risk, "or I should be unworthy of the name of king did I abandon those whom I have promised to stand by and succour in every danger." Whatever may be said of his faults and ambitions, no one has ever quesâ€" tioned the bravery of Napoleon Bonaâ€" parte, who was not only the bravest of his army, but constantly led his forces in the most dangerous parts of the battlefield. At the Battle of Lodi, for instance, he dashed on foot across the famous bridge that had become an artillery target of the enâ€" emy, his hand on the colors, the dead falling by dozens every step of the way. Stories of Valiant Deeds Done Ey TOâ€"DAY RULERS ARE NOT AL LOWED TO FIGHT. HOW KINGS FOUGHT IN DAYS OF OLD CLEANS ano DISINFECTS PURE. THEREFORE TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE IMPURE AND HIGH*.Y ADULTâ€" ERATED LYES NOW SOLD. THIS LYE 18 ABSOLUTELY the thickest of the e" to quote the past, "being the true French army," uring Lhe qu‘m“ making bargains. a time whgn you *asr valiant monâ€" IV., who as Henry d war. According monarch came to award. By sheer se Sir; â€" on the field _ sword cnemies. Fa strong the la; mines, at hon If we are to « strength in the to act much m army than as it dependent | citiz peace only to a ing. . 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